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5:07

Orisanmi Burton

What really happened during the Attica Prison Rebellion

Posted May 2021

5:06

Amy Hrdina and Jesse Kroll

What's in the air you breathe?

Posted May 2021

4:57

Alex Gendler

How one design flaw almost toppled a skyscraper

Posted May 2021

5:11

Ilan Stavans

Who decides what's in the dictionary?

Posted May 2021

4:41

Grantly Galland and Raiana McKinney

Meet the bluefin tuna, the toughest fish in the sea

Posted May 2021

4:43

Sara C. Mednick

How long should your naps be?

Posted Apr 2021

5:15

Alex Gendler

Demolition, disease, and death: Building the Panama Canal

Posted Apr 2021

5:08

Dennis E. Shasha

Can you solve Dongle's Difficult Dilemma?

Posted Apr 2021

4:44

Rebecca J. Barthelmie and Sara C. Pryor

How do wind turbines work?

Posted Apr 2021

5:46

Alex Gendler

How the world's tallest skyscraper was built

Posted Apr 2021

4:57

Justin Schmidt

The world's most painful insect sting

Posted Apr 2021

4:39

Alex Gendler

Why are airplanes slower than they used to be?

Posted Apr 2021

5:20

Joseph Goffman

Whatever happened to acid rain?

Posted Apr 2021

5:08

Erick Wilberding

This tool will help improve your critical thinking

Posted Apr 2021

4:45

Kristiina J. Hurme and Alejandro Rico-Guevara

The surprising secrets of hummingbird flight

Posted Apr 2021

4:49

TED-Ed

Why good ideas get trapped in the valley of death — and how to rescue them

Posted Apr 2021

5:27

Elizabeth Cox

Can you outsmart the apples and oranges fallacy?

Posted Apr 2021

4:55

Jacques S. Abramowicz

How does ultrasound work?

Posted Apr 2021

4:39

Kayla Wolf

Why every world map is wrong

Posted Mar 2021

4:46

Brian A. Pavlac

A brief history of the devil

Posted Mar 2021

5:27

Dennis E. Shasha

Can you solve the fantasy election riddle?

Posted Mar 2021

5:24

Kayla Wolf

Ugly History: The Spanish Inquisition

Posted Mar 2021

4:20

TED-Ed

What's the best fuel for your car?

Posted Mar 2021

4:39

Neil R. Jeyasingam

How do antidepressants work?

Posted Mar 2021

4:26

TED-Ed

How much land does it take to power the world?

Posted Mar 2021

4:52

Chase LaDue and Bruce A. Schulte

The incredible, bendable, twistable, expandable elephant trunk

Posted Mar 2021

4:37

Briana Brownell

How does artificial intelligence learn?

Posted Mar 2021

4:41

TED-Ed

How much electricity does it take to power the world?

Posted Mar 2021

5:57

Lisa Krause

Who were Las Mariposas, and why were they murdered?

Posted Mar 2021

1:29

Sir Ken Robinson

How would you finish the sentence, "Imagine if..."?

Posted Mar 2021

4:51

Heather Malyuk

Can loud music damage your hearing?

Posted Mar 2021

5:06

TED-Ed

The material that could change the world ... for a third time

Posted Mar 2021

4:28

Karen L. Cox

Debunking the myth of the Lost Cause: A lie embedded in American history

Posted Feb 2021

4:45

Edwin Meyer

Can you solve the logician's rave riddle?

Posted Feb 2021

4:55

TED-Ed

The world's biggest battery looks nothing like a battery

Posted Feb 2021

5:14

Lorenzo García-Amaya

Why do we, like, hesitate when we, um, speak?

Posted Feb 2021